To peel
חַסְפַּסStrong’s H2636chaspas (chas-pas)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chaspas is the Hebrew word usually translated “flake-like”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.”
Meaning
- (Pual) to peel, flake off (only in the participle)scale-like, flake-like, scaled-off
How it's translated
- flake-like 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חַסְפַּס chaspas · to peel
1) (Pual) to peel, flake off (only in the participle) 1a) scale-like, flake-like, scaled-off
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “peel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PEEL, verb transitive
[Latin pilo, to pull off hair and to pillage; pilus, the hair.]
- To strip off skin, bark or rind without a cutting instrument; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin; to bark; to flay; to decorticate.
- In a general sense, to remove the skin, bark or rind, even with an instrument.
- To strip; to plunder; to pillage; as, to peel a province or conquered people.
All definitions and other forms of “peel”
PEEL, noun
[Latin pellis.]
The skin or rind of any thing; as the peel of an orange.
PEEL, noun
[Latin pala; pello; Eng. shovel, from shove; or from spreading.]
A kind of wooden shovel used by bakers, with a broad palm and long handle; hence, in popular use in America, any large fire-shovel.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.